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Americus Spot Cotton Strict Middling 35c. N. Y. Futures Jan Meh. Mav Prev. Close 35.50 35.80 35.00 Open 35.20 35.10JJ5.90 11 am 35.20 25.48f85.C6 Close 35.50 34.00fc4.98 ORTY-FIFTH YEAR.—NO. 269 COOLIDGE WILL ADDRESS CONGRESS IN JOINT SESSION 2000000000000 00 000000 0 STORM STRIKES CAMILLA; SSOOO DAMAGE OQOOOOOOOO 000 'OOOOOOOOO PROGRESSIVES LOSE IN SOUTH DAKOTA PRESIDENTIAL TEST VOTE WH (Will TOWN IN PATH OF STOBB IS SEVEPELV DAMAGED No Lives Lost, But Property- Loss Will Aggregate Five Thousand Dc.'lors HEAVY RAIN FOLLOWS Business There Almost Entirely Suspended Today As Result Os Damage Sustained CAMILLA, December 5. — (By- Associated Press.) —A small torna do hit this place last night, causing damage estimated at $5,000. Roofs were torn off in all parts of the town, plate glass windows in the "ommercial section shattered and .( general disruption of business followed during the morning today. So far as could be learned up to noon, no one was injured, though debris flew about in many direc tions as the tornado struck. That no lives were lost is considered al most miraculous. The violent winds are thought to have been the result of a storm area prevalent over parts of South Geor gia during last night, though Ca milla is the only community to suf fe*r any damage, according to relia ble reports. Heavy rains following in the wake of the storm are believed to- have added greatly to the damage sus tained by growing crops in Mitchell and adjoining- counties. METHfIWPASTORS BUM FROM MEET Report New Inspiration From Conference; Will Hold Ser vices Tonight Rev. Luther A. Harrell, of the Lee Street Methodist church, Rev. John M .Outlet of the First Meth odist churyh, and Rev. A. W. Quil lian returned Tuesday from the an nual convention of the South Geor gia Methodist Episcopal church conference at Savannah. Regular prayer meeting services will be held at both Lee Street and First church at 7 o’clock tonight, according io announcement. No re port of the convention is expected to be made until the Sunday serv ices. , “We had a fine convention and have returned with a new de termination to devote all our facul- - woi . v the coming year,” the pastors stated. “We are exceedingly glad to be returned to our charges.” HENRY MATHEWS PAINFULLY INJURED ftenry Mathews, faithful little carrier boy for the Times Recorder, is confined to his home on Furlow street with a painfuly hurt finger, the accident ocurring eai'y this morning as he w<.nt from the back porch of his home to the yard. ,Thc wind, which was blowin ? a ,gale, blew the lattice door on his hand, catching his finger between the door casing and the lattice, tak ing off the end of the finger. While the hurt is not regarded as serious, it will incapacitate the lad from carrying- the papers for several days. > ROME POLICE SEARCH FOR FAKE CHECK MAKER ROME, Dec. s.—Local police au thorities are looking for a smooth “bogus” cheek passer who “flim flammed” a local concern out of STO on Saturday by posing as an employe of the state highway de partment. The man who gave his name as James T. Wright appeared at ti Broad street store and bo ‘ tht five bushels of oats, claiming- that they were for a road gang working on the Alabama road. In payment, he tendered a check for sls signed by “Charles M. Storey & Sons,” al leging that it was a check furnish ed him by the highway department for expenses. He also asked for a statement of his purchase in order to “keep his books straight.” H« left the store with the $lO change, ostensibly to go for a truck to get the oats. He has not been seen or heard from since*. Chief of Police Harris has taken up the matter and officers in oth er cities have been asked to keep a lookout for the man. r -- THE TIMESK RECORDER FWj PUBLISHED IN THE~ HEART OF DlXfiETlfejj FOLLOWS HUBBY |||| B Mrs. Mae Hunt Nolan (above) of San Francisco, who succeeded her husband, the late John R. Nolan, as congressman from the Fifth Cali fornia district, is expected to be tendered the leadership of the house labmor committee. Nolan held that chairmanship several terms. Below is Mrs. Nolan’s little daughter. ioimMS ST ELLIS FUNERAL Floral Offerings Beautiful, With Interment In Oak Grove Cemetery Hundreds of friends and ac quaintances attended the funeral of Mrs. T. D. Ellis which was held from the George R. Ellis home on Taylor street this morning at 11 o’clock. The services were conducted by Rev. J. A. Smith, of Macon, a warm personal friend of Dr. Ellis, assist ed by Rev. O. F. Cook, of Macon, and Rev. John M. Outler, pastor of the Americus First Methodist church. Interment was in ‘ak Grove cemetery, and handsome flo ral offerings were contributed by friends in Georgia and Kentucky. The pallbearers were T. M. Fur low, John Sheffield, A. Dl Gate wood, John W. Shiver, G. (T Webb and Joe M. Bryan. raiS em APE DECLARER ffILIO Supreme Court Holds Legisla ture Can Meet Without Cal! Os Governor OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec. 5. The Oklahoma Supreme court Tues day held legal the special election of October 2 at which a constitutional amendment was adopted empower ing the state legislature to meet without call by the governor. The decision was on an appeal of George Short, state attorney gen eral from action of Judge Thomas G. Chambers, Si., in disijict court, in granting an injunction restrain ing the state election board from certifying the returns of the elec tion to the secretary of state. The injunction was granted on applica tion of former Governor J. C. Wal ton. Attorney General Short rep resented the election board. After brief argument in state district Court here Tuesday before Juoge George W. Clark, December 21 was set for hearing of a’motion by J. C. Walton, deposed Oklahoma governor, to quash six inductments pending against him. Members of Walton’s legal staff said today that they would leave for Washington, December 13 to file in United States supreme court ’heir appeal from the decision of Judge John H. Cotterai in federal district court here, in which he re fused to assume jurisdiction in the former executive’s impeachment case, AMERICUS. GA., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 5, 1923 ANNUAL MESSAGE TO GO TO CONGRESS ON ITHURSWTIS STATED i Address To Be Delivered Before Session of Both Houses In ' i National Capitol HOUR IS NOT ANNOUNCED Recommendations To Be Made To Lawmakers Also Veiled In Secrecy j WASHINGTON, Dec. s—(By As sociated Press.) —President Cool idge will deliver his first annual ad dress to congress before the house and senate in joint session in the . capitol building here Thursday af ternoon. A definite decision as to the time of President Coolidge’s typpearance before the joint session of congress was reached today at the White House, announcement being made at the conclusion of a conference between leaders in both house and the executive. GILLETT RE-ELECTED SPEAKER OF HOUSE. WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 (By Associated Press.) —Frederick H. Gillett, of Massachusetts, was re elected speaker of the house of con gress here today when the Republi can insurgents voted for him for the first time since the beginning of the deadlock on Monday;- Leaders among the insurgents caucused before the house met and agreed to continue their fight to prevent organization unless Repre sentative Nicholas Longworth, of Ohio, Republican floor leader, per mitted their spokesman to read a statement embodying their interpre tation of the provisions embodied in last night’s compromise settlement upon the floor pf the house. After agreement had been reach ed on this point, th e insurgents had their statement read before the i assembled house, Representative Longworth announcing at the con clusion of the statement that it represented his interpretation of compromise terms. JURY IS STILL OUT IN OR. YARBROUGH CASE Alexander Goes on Trial For Alleged Flogging of Ollie M. Perry, at Macon MACON, Dec. 5. (By the As sociated Press.)—The jury at noon Wednesday was still out in the case of Dr. C. A. Yarborough. Macon dentist, charged with assisting in the flogging of W. O. Barnett. No agreement was in sight at that time, court offiicals believed. J. F. Alexander, grocer, went on trial in the City court on charge oi assault and battery in connec tion with the flogging of Ollie M. Perry. The victim identified Alex ander as being one of the party that flogged him. Trial of the alleged floggers have grown out of alleged opera tions of the Ku Klux Klan in Ma con. At the time of the whole sale whipping of the victims it was thought that the governor would be called to send troops to curtail the activities of the floggers. CAVALRY COLONEL SAYS $250 ALIMONY TOO MUCH LITTLE ROCK, Dec. s—Con tending that his salary of $550 a month is inadequate to pay alimony of $250 a month, support Ms pres ent wife and child and his aged mother and to “maintain an estab lishment befitting a colonel of cav alry in the United States army in command of one of the largest posts in the country,” Colonel John J. Boniface, commanding officer of the 13th cavalry, filed a motion in chancery court here Tuesday ask ing that the amount of alimony he is required to pay his former wife be reduced. Colonel Boniface obtained a de cree of divorce from his first wife on the ground of desertion. He al leged that Mrs. Boniface declined to join him at Camp Pike when he was ordered.here during the world war. Colonel now is stationed at Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo. Eustic Guttenberger, of Macon, Attended the funeral of Mrs. T. D. Ellis here this morning. ( TEACHER SPANKS SON; MAMA WHIPS TEACHER AND PAYS $50.00 FINE ANNISOX, Ala., Dec. 4.—This old stuff -<!' hiding the paddle amd' making gMgsters or bootleggers of the chiliiMm was a fine thought in midvictorSh days but in 1923 it is the bunk<aVlis. Annie Williamson, of White plains, nbar here be lieves. 1 So she lave Miss Cleo Mills, a pretty yodjig school teacher, a sound whipping because the rod was applied too freely to a son of Mrs. Willipmson who engaged in a fi|t fig'l’t in the county school. Judge ’lTu.mas W. Coleman Fri day ruled tjiut Miss Mills was justi fied jn beiiact and fined the moth er SSO anil costs. NEimlS ■ WHITES BUTTLE IS CHICAGO: Ml K MUM Case in Negro District Is Scene of Serious Rioting; Police Answer Call 2 CHAUFFEURS STABBED Six White Men, Two White Girls And Six Negroes Arrested As Result of Fight CHiSaOP, Dec. s.—(By the As sociated Press.) —A riot call today summoned two wagon loads of po lice to the Dreamland case, at the Black end Tan establishment in a South Side negro district, where about 50 negroes and white both men and women battling with chairs, throwing dishes and flash ing knives. Several persons were "beaten un conscious and two chauffeurs were stabbed. Police arrested six ne groes as many white men and two white girls. Indications point ed to a race riot. , EOTOMRE TABLED IN SENATE Fight Against Reform Program Os Governor Believed Be gun in Upper House ATLANTA, Dec. 5.-—(By the As sociated Press.) —The Georgia sen ate today tabled the Mason classi fication tax measure, which is part of the administration's tax reform program. Passage Tuesday of the calendar threw open a complete discussion of the whole program favored by Governor Walker und hia friends. The tabling of the Mason measure again delays the progress of the tax settlement. This, leaders be lieve, is the first step in the at tack on the program outlined by Walker forces. DIAMOND’S FRIEND HELD ON BAD CHECK CHARGE CLEVELAND, 0., Dee. s.—Mrs. Margaret Gordon, who claims to be a friend of Diamonds, ar rested here :r week ago in- connec tion with the murder and robbery of two Brooklyn, N. Y., bank mes sengers, was booked at headquar ters Monday on a charge of issuing a check to defraud. An hour before Diamonds’ arrest she claimed to have taken dinner with him here. He asked her, she I said, to deposit $9,000 of the mes- I senger robbery loot in a safety vault, but she refused. The check charge was preferred after officials of a downtown store reported she offered a $lO bogus check in pay ment or merchandise. POINCARE CLAUSE FAILS IN DEPUTIES’ CHAMBER FARIS. Dec. ,5. — (By Associated Press.) For the first time since Premier Poincare assumed office in January, 1922, the chamber of dep juties Tuesday dared to pronounce I against his expressed wish, when it ;threw out from its electoral reform hill the absolute majority clause by la vote of 290 to 275. M. Poincare’s championing of the I measure, however, had been rather I mild, and he refrained from making iit a question of confidence. Thus i the vote, although coming as a sur ! prise cannot be construed as imply ing a lack of confidence of the gov ernment. ARTHUR IS HER OF ODO EOT DEALERS; TO REDEEM PLEDGES Dissolution of New York Cotton Not Due To Financial Break It Is Reported MANY SUMTER INVESTORS Local Representative Says His Company Not Barred From Gotham Trading A. L. Rustin, representative o£ the W. W. Arthur Cotton company of New York, member of the Odd i Lott Cotton Exchange, said Wed nesday morning that a telegram from Mr. Arthur stated that the head of the company would come to Americus in person and would re deem all pledges of the firm. There are many investors in the Arthur company in Sumter county. “The Arthur company was not included in those who went to the wall in the grand failure es New York brokers,” Mr. Kustin stated. “Communications from Mr. Arthur states that the cauce of the disso lution of his firm was due to an agreement of the partners, and that his organization will take immedi ate steps to make settlements. “The firm was a member of the Odd Lot Cotton Exchange, but it was not included among the firms defunct. Odd Lot members have been barred from trade on the big exchanges, but the Arthur company will protect investors. We are not among those against whom leakage charges have been made as far as I know.” NEW YORK BARS ODD LOT TRADER NEW YORK, Dec. 5-—Two mem bers of the New York Cotton Ex change yesterday were summoned to appear before the business con duct committee of the exchange on Wednesday in connection with the alleged leakage of> quotations At the same time the cotton exchange of Atlanta and Augusta, Ga., were warned that failure to safeguard New York cotton exchange quota tions would result in discontin uance of the service to them. This action, which is a part of the war on bucket shops, Louis Brook, chairman of the busi ness conduct committee, explained, js the result of an investigation in to the leakage of exchange quota tions to certain outside houses which said they did an odd lot cot ton brokerage business. ,“The committee is continuing its inquiry into the alleged misuse of the exchange quotations and kin dred matters.” he said, “and it is possible that other members may be summoned before it if informa tion now in the hands of the com mittee is substantiated.” Other cotton exchanges in the South, Mr. Brooks stated, will be notified of the New York cotton exchange’s policy to refuse use of its quotations if any evidence of leakage is discovered. Edward T. Bartlett, Jr., president of the exchange, announced that members would be held strictly ac countable for failure to take prop er precautions to prevent quota tions reaching the hands of per sons not authorized to receive them. Without the quotations, cotton bucket shops could not exist, he said. , ATLANTA IN ACCORD WHH NEW YORK ATLANTA, Dec. 5.—J. Hope Tignor, secretary of the Atlanta Commercial exchange, Monday night stated that the local organi zation was in thorough accord with the New York body. “This matter has been under Consideration for some time,” he said “and the action of the New York exchange is intended to safe guard all its quotations from all dealers except members of the ex change. “In the past it has beer, the cus tom of the Atlanta Commercial ex change to allow members to extend privileges of the floor to members, of the Odd Lots exchange, who ope rate in Savananh, Atlanta and Au gusta. In the future this privilege will be withdrawn.” Miss Verna Johnson left today to spend some time with Mrs. R. M. Moproe at her home in Ashburn, where she will be the recipient of a number of pretty social atten tions during the pre-Christmas holi days. Miss Johnson will retrun to her home here for Christmas fei tivities, t 10 more SHOPPiMG DAYS ♦ j 6E T%nis<\ f RENCH TO fl I THOM TPOOPS FROM CITIES German Towns To Be Left As Reward For Co-Operation With Occupation Forces PARIS, Dec. s.—(By the Asso ciated Press.) —Troops occupying the Ruhr are gradually to be con centrated in camps outside the city, it was explained by French govern ment officials. It is the purpose of the Frepch government to make the occupation less irritating to t‘ie Germans in reward for their appar ent disposition to abandon their hostility toward the occupation. A general attitude of co-opera tion with the allied regime has been apparent, the offiicals inti mated. There is no idea of evcau ating the Ruhr at present, it was stated. OLD TO MOUSE CHIPLEY MAN’S DEATH Five Shots Fired When Brothers in-Law Meet; Pistol Is Used CHIPLEY, Dee. s.—Without ut tering a word Homer G. Irvin shot and probably fatally wounded John McGehee, his brother-in-law. on the principal street of Chipley Monday morning. Irvin shot at McGee five times, only one of the bullets taking ef fect. The bullet which wounded McGehee entered the left breast. He was rushed to the city hospital in Columbus for treatment. OLD FEUD BLAMED FOR SHOOTING COLUMBUS, Dec. 5. As the consequence of an old feud, it is understood, John McGehee, well known Harris county man who lived with his wife and children at Chipley, was shot and perhaps fatal ly wounded on the main business street of the Harris county town Monday morning by his brother-in law, Homer G. Irwin, according to information reaching Columbus. McGehee is in a serious condition. In a long distance telephone con versation , with Mayor R. B. Dur ham, of Chipley, it was learned that five shots are understood to have been fired at McGehee by Ir win, only one taking effect, the bullet entering the right breast. A pistol was the weapon used. SPARTA TRUCK GROWERS DO THRIVING BUSINESS SPARTA, Dec. s.—Truck grow ers around Sparta have demon strated that fall that .vegetables may be grown her n almost until Christ mas. They still are selling many va rieties and hav e been selling toma toes up to a few days ago. TWO WHITE CONVIVCTS FLEE FLOYD CAMP ROME, Dec. s.—Nothing fur ther had been heard last night from Mason Hart and Ben Phillips, white cpnvicts, who mad e good their es cape from the Floyd county convict camp on the Black Bluff road early Tuesday morning. This is the second time both men have escaped, both having ! been sent from Chattooga county to Floyd be cause Chattooga county officials found them too difficult to confine. Hart has served one year of a seven year sentence for forgery while Phillips has served a little more than three years of 15-year sen tence for assault to murder. Photographs from airplanes have helped toward the discovery of old Roman military roads in England. WEATHER For Georgia—Mostly cloudy and colder tonight; probably light frest in portion if weather clear. Thursday fair; fresh, possi bly storms; southwest shifting to northwest winds. PRICE FIVE CENTS SOUTH DfiKOTA WTES ON EXECUTIVE CHOICE; 1000. JOHNSON LOSE Coolidge, McAdoo and La Fol lette Win in Test Votes For Nominations PRESIDENT WELL PLEASED White House Officials Satisfied Over Johnson’s Minority; All Parties in Balloting PIERRE, S. D., Dee. s.—(By the Associated Press) —President Cal vin Coolidge. William G. McAdoo and Senator LaFollette were en dorsed as presidential standard bearers for the Republican, Demo cratic and Farmer-Labor parties re spectively at 'the state proposal meetings here last night. The se lections in turn were made over Senator Hiram Johnson and li'enry Ford, who were put forward both. by Democrats and F|irmer-Labor ites. McAdoo beat Ford 39,018 to 5,- 082 and LaFollette in the Farmer- Laborite vote defeated him 31,999 to 7,247. COOLIDGE PLANS TO ACKNOWLEDGE ACTION WASHINGTON, Dec. s.—(By the Associated Press.) —President Coolidge will acknowledge the ac tion of the South Dakota Republi can proposal convention in grant ing him preference for the presi dential primary, and will send a communication, to Republican lead ers of that state. The action on the part of the chief executive is regarded as an indication towards his attitude toward the 1924 elec tion. White House offiicals Wednes day made no attempt to disguise their satisfaction in the majority given over Senator Hiram Johnson. SUNTERCOURTPIJIIS TO END EJLL SESSION A -AL Cases Being Dispatched With Celerity In Order to Adjourn By Friday The grind of justice in the Sum ter Superior court continued Wed nesday morning, and if indications are correct will keep the court docket full until late Thursday aft ernoon and possibly Friday morn ing. Criminal cases occupied the attention of the court, and cases ranging from misdemeanors to felonies were to be brought before the tribunal. Efforts on of court of ficials to speed up the trials had met with success, and cases were being dispatched with as much speed as possible. Trial charges continued during the morning. Fall term sessions of the court will coise to an end during Thursday or Fri day. officials predict. The grand jury completed its . presentments and recommendations Tuesday afternoon and adjourned. MRS. H. cLhORTON ILL WITH PNEUMONIA Mrs. H. C. H'orton, one of the best known and widely beloved residents of Americus, is seriously ill at her home here, having been stricken with pneumonia, and friends are concerned regarding her condition. Her daughters, M>-s. 1. Odom, of Macom, and Mrs. Joe Brown, of Columbus, and son, W. D. Horton, of Mcßae, have been summoned to her bedside and are now in at tendance in the Horton home. INFANT IS BURNED; ‘SPIRITS’ URGED, CLAIM SOUTH PORTLAND. Maine, Dec. s.—Mrs. Ethel G. Killikssn placed her ten-months-old daugh ter on the red-hot coals in her kitchen stove Tuesday, the police said, because she believed that “spirits from God had called for the sacrifice” of the baby and that she “was soon to follow.” Neigh bors who heard the screams of her other children rescued the infant. At the hospital physicians said thas the baby, although severely burned, probably would recover. The wo man will be examined to determine her mental condition.
